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Character:
Modern (Beijing) reading: xiù
Preclassic Old Chinese: sikʷs
Classic Old Chinese: siwh
Western Han Chinese: sjǝwh
Eastern Han Chinese: sjǝwh
Early Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Middle Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Late Postclassic Chinese: sjìw
Middle Chinese: sjǝ̀w
English meaning : to embroider; embroidery
Russian meaning[s]: 1) вышивать; вышивка; вышитый; разукрашенный; 2) Сю (фамилия)
Comments: Viet. thêu is a colloquial loan (initial th- is somewhat strange - perhaps it indicates that OC had *sh- here, with an irregular development > MC s- instead of ch-); standard Sino-Viet. is tú.
Sino-Tibetan etymology: Sino-Tibetan etymology
Dialectal data: Dialectal data
Radical: 120
Four-angle index: 2055
Karlgren code: 1028 e
Vietnamese reading: thêu
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Sino-Tibetan etymology :

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Proto-Sino-Tibetan: *sĭkʷ
Meaning: sew, embroider
Chinese: *sikʷs embroider.
Tibetan: gsog to sew together.
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Number: 2369
Chinese etymology: Chinese etymology
Character:
MC description : 流開三去宥心
ZIHUI: 4937 1608
Beijing: śiou 3
Jinan: śiou 3
Xi'an: śiou 3
Taiyuan: śiou 3
Hankou: śiou 3
Chengdu: śiǝu 3
Yangzhou: śiôɨ 3
Suzhou: söy 31
Wenzhou: śiu 31
Changsha: śiôu 31
Shuangfeng: śiû 31
Nanchang: śiu 31
Meixian: siu 3
Guangzhou: šau 31
Xiamen: siu 31
Chaozhou: siu 31
Fuzhou: sieu 31
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